Jet-Boot Jack
Alternative title: Jet-Boot Jack - Adventures in the Music Machine  (US). The Music Machine starring Jet-Boot Jack  (title screen)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Music notes have escaped throughout the world, and Jet-Boot Jack must collect them up. There are ten levels, the first five of which can be played from the main menu. Gameplay is platform-based, and largely involves progressing down the levels, using holes and moving platforms. Enemies hover over the holes, but these can be disabled by toggling the right switches. There are also timing-based hazards such as arrows emerging from walls and lazer beams - contact with any of these costs one of your five lives. You also lose a life if you run out of energy. Some levels vary the format by requiring you to simply collect every note on a single screen, which has regeneration points and one-way platforms.

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Sequel :  Legend of the Knucker-Hole starring Jet-Boot Jack in 1984. Jon Williams developed that game on the Commodore 64 but it was not ported to any other systems.

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The original Atari version was released in 1983 in the UK by English Software. The game was a big success and became one of English's first games to be converted to other machines beginning with the Commodore 64, also in 1983, and the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro in 1984. The Amstrad version was also later published by Amsoft (1985). The game was so in demand for the Atari that it featured as the lead game on the first three Atari Smash Hits compilations released by English Software. In the US, the game was released by Datamost with the subtitle "Adventures in the Music Machine" on the cover and billed as The Music Machine starring Jet-Boot Jack on the title screen. The game was followed by a sequel Legend of the Knucker-Hole starring Jet-Boot Jack in 1984. Jon Williams developed that game on the Commodore 64 but it was not ported to any other systems.

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Description from the packaging:

Adventures in the music machine!
He's so cool
He's got the moves
Music on his head
And jets on his shoes
Ten music chambers
And only five lives
He might have to wait
'Til a platform arrives
He might have to find
A Sleeper to hit
Or jump on a Mover
And make him quit
He flies through notes
Ducks under rocks
Jet-Boot Jack will knock off your socks
Jet-Boot Jack will knock off your socks
Jet-Boot Jack is...
Fast moves
Ten Music Chambers
Five Skill Levels
A Practice Level
Joystick Control
Elevators
Platforms
Movers
Sleepers
Color Graphics
